Do you know how long it’s been since the Rangers incurred an injury as impactful as the one sustained by Adam Fox last Thursday against the Hurricanes, which landed the club’s best player on long-term injured reserve and will sideline him for at least 24 days?

Cue the elderly Rose:

“It’s been 84 years…”

An exaggeration, perhaps, but in hockey life, not an egregious one. Because the fact is it has been at least four years since the Blueshirts lost an essential core piece for this amount of prescribed time.